A young boy who was found almost lifeless after falling into a minigolf course pond is recovering in the hospital, thanks to the quick actions of an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer.

"Not by any means" does Officer Corey Harcha consider himself a hero. "I just did what I was trained to do," he said.

Hampton Township police say the almost 3-year-old boy slipped away from his foster family at the Wildwood Highlands family fun center at about 9 p.m. Thursday. Somehow, he fell into a small pond and was not able to get out.

Officials haven't said how long the child spent underwater, but he was unresponsive and not breathing by the time he was pulled out.

"As I pulled into the parking lot and got out of my car, I heard a lady screaming from across the parking lot. She come running over to me with a lifeless toddler in her hand," Harcha said. "I asked what had happened, and she stated that he had fallen in the water and was not breathing."

Identifying himself as a police officer, Harcha said he asked the woman, who told him she was the boy's aunt, to put the child on the ground and gave his phone to his friend to call 911 while he went to work on the boy.

"After a couple of minutes of performing CPR, he started to come back to. He started to cough," he said. "Then, once he started to breathe, I waited for responding units and medics and let them take over."

The boy was taken to UPMC Children's Hospital, where he remained on Friday morning. His name has not been released to the public. "I think I'm going to try to take a visit to the hospital if they'll let me in," Harcha said.

Authorities say they are investigating why the child was unsupervised when he fell into the water.

"Initially, she was standing by herself in the golf course, screaming. But she wasn't screaming anything. She was just screaming," said Harcha, a six-year veteran of the force. "The only thing she told me was that he had wandered away."

An owner of Wildwood Highlands told Channel 4 Action News the center is cooperating with the Allegheny County police investigation, supplying them with security video. She believes it was a case of a child being left unattended.

Channel 4 Action News checked with state regulators about the history of the fun center.

"There have been no accidents reported, nor have there been any incidents requiring investigation in the past three years at Wildwood Highlands," said Nicole L. C. Bucher, deputy press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, in an email to Channel 4 Action News reporter Bob Mayo. "This recent incident is under investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Bureau of Ride and Measurement Standards."

Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said, "Our hearts and our prayers go out to the toddler and the family, in hopes that he will have a full recovery."

Harcha said he hopes to reach out again to touch the life he saved. "I think I'm going to try to take a visit to the hospital, if they'll let me in," he said.

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